My pesky day job summoned me out of town this week, so there was unfortunately no time left to make a comic for today. Instead, check out this video documenting my process of producing the comic Important Timing from a while back. Enjoy! Regular comic updates should resume soon.

No new comic today as I’m on a much deserved(?) vacation. Instead, check out this time-lapsed making-of video featuring the comic “Alien Spawn” from a while back. (Final version here.) This video was part of the ongoing Patreon rewards. Supporting Optipess on Patreon will give you access to a bunch more videos and other stuff. [...]

Big news! I have now launched a Patreon campaign! Patreon is basically like an ongoing Kickstarter – a way for you, the readers, to support your favorite artists who just happen to provide their content free on the Internet. And like a lot of Internet creators, I’m unfortunately required to have a day job on [...]

Turns out the comic I had planned for Friday’s update started kicking my ass, as opposed to the other way around, so I’m pushing it to next week. (Or scrapping it completely, I haven’t decided yet.) Until then, check out this time lapse video I made showing the making-of process behind the recent “Soul Snatch” [...]

Alas, there will be no new comic today as I unfortunately caught the sniffles over the weekend and mostly spent it under a blanket coughing instead of drawing comics. However, fear not! – with some luck the regular updates will soon resume as normal. But since you’re already browsing these “Internet” pages, why not check [...]

Observant readers have probably noticed a brand new donation button thing on the site. Here you can throw some spare change in the depicted cup which I will exclusively use for critical comics-related expenses, like paying the electric bills for powering my Cintiq drawing tablet or for hiring bodybuilder bodyguards to fend off myriads of [...]

Bluh, sorry for the erratic posting schedule lately – but here’s a batch of Bad Comics to make up for it! Y’know, the best way to keep up with updates is definitely the RSS feed – that way you’ll get instantaneous notices whenever there’s a new comic or blog post. Which is especially helpful nowadays [...]

So I had a comic in mind for today, but apparently over the weekend I completely lost the ability to produce these strips, resulting in me scrapping said comic altogether. Not the best feeling, but with some luck I should be able to relearn it all in time for the next update. Hopefully? In any [...]

Woop! Here are some bad/terrible comics for your enjoyment. I know I promised these earlier, but due to <insert excuse here> the posting of them got postponed. Anyway, with my “vacation” time somewhat ended now, more of these and/or regular comics should appear soon here, but I have some other projects brewing right now so [...]

Voilá! Here’s yet another batch of bad comics, and if I may say so myself, I think this one’s the worst one yet! Scroll down further to see the previous New Years batch. Also, as per usual, click on the image to zoom in. Oh, and a proper new strip will most likely appear later [...]

I’m still taking a tiny vacation over the holidays, but here’s a new batch of bad comics anyway! I planned to post a Christmas-themed one as well, but ran so late with it that I figured I should just aim for New Years instead. Look for more bad comics on Monday, and a proper new [...]

That’s right! Just the other day this site hit its magical second birthday, which totals to 730 days, or 17 520 hours – all with Optipess comics available for your reading pleasure. A bit like this blog post I put up when I hit 100 comics, I wanted to once again celebrate this wondrous occasion [...]

Ah, sorry guys, but I was feeling under the weather this weekend and didn’t get around to making a regular comic – so instead, as a replacement, you get these 5 “bad” ones I had lying around! With some luck I’ll be up to making a Friday comic later this week, but for now I’m [...]

As promised, here’s another batch of “bad” comics! I’m definitely having fun making these, and the no-colors, three-panel setup means I can quickly crank out a few of these silly comic ideas that for one reason or another won’t really work as a full-fledged Optipess comic. Speaking of which, new “regular” comics will reappear from [...]

Hello! So instead of a regular comic today, you get 5 bad ones! This is pretty much inspired by the “200 Bad Comics Challenge” as first issued by Box Brown to Nedroid, and later picked up by ChannelAte and DJ Bogtrotter. I think. Anyway, I don’t really have plans to make 200 of these anytime [...]

If you’re a bit like me, antisocial and introverted, then you probably enjoy all these new ways to “connect” and “interact” with people online, especially since they don’t require you to leave the house. And of course, Optipess is present on some of these with varying intensity! So in case you didn’t know of these [...]

Ouch, looks like today’s comic strip will be delayed a little while as I pretty much spent all day yesterday in bed groaning with headaches and/or sleeping instead of drawing. Hopefully it will only be a few hours late, however that’s now dependable on whether or not I manage to stay awake for more than [...]

Well, I just had to blog about this: Apparently today, the first Monday in February, is in fact “National Sick Day” – the one day per year when the most employees call in sick for no good reason. Now, I had no knowledge of this day when I made today’s comic, so this definitely chalks [...]

So instead of a new comic this past Monday, I figured I should post a finished version of the “25 Expressions Challenge”. If you’re following me on Twitter, you might have seen a work-in-progress version a few months back, but today I decided to ink and color it for your viewing pleasure. But what is [...]